Oxfordshire · Grease filter exchange
Hungerford Green grease filter exchange
We cover Hungerford Green for a scheduled grease filter exchange, swapping dirty canopy filters for clean ones. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports on every job.
- Blocked baffle filters
- Missing filters in the filter bank
- Filter washing that keeps being missed
Grease filter exchange for kitchens and businesses in Hungerford Green
In Hungerford Green, our filter exchange runs on a schedule set by how much the kitchen cooks. Busy kitchens need changes more often while a lighter kitchen can go longer. We agree the interval with you at the start. The work covers restaurants and pubs, island canopies and wall canopies, and the jobs we see most are staff short of time to wash filters and filters that come out of the sink still dirty.
In a village or hamlet like Hungerford Green, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are normally a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Every one of them still needs its extract kept clear of grease.
The sign-off is always in writing: a dated report with pictures of the work, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. It shows what was done and what, if anything, couldn’t be reached.
- Place
- Hungerford Green (RG8)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Photo report after each visit
- Quote
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Common questions in Hungerford Green
Do you work in villages like Hungerford Green?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, Hungerford Green included. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Who is the fire and rescue service for Hungerford Green?
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Hungerford Green. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
What’s TR19?
It’s the industry benchmark for cleaning ventilation and kitchen extract systems, written by BESA. It sets out inspection, cleaning and record keeping and expects a risk-based approach.
What if some of our filters are damaged?
A bent filter leaves a gap for grease. We flag any we find and explain what’s needed.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
Protection goes down first: sheeting over floors, worktops and anything close to the work. We tidy up and take our waste away before we leave.
Which grease filters does the service cover?
Baffle filters and mesh filters. Mention how many canopies you have when you get in touch, or we’ll check on the first visit.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. Our area covers London and the South East, so we can schedule a run of sites as one programme. Every site has its own report.
Are you accredited?
CHAS, SafeContractor, ISO 9001 and BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We’re fully insured and have been trading since 2009.
Towns and villages near Hungerford Green
What else we do in Hungerford Green
When it’s something else
We won’t sell you work that doesn’t address the problem, so these are the things it will not cover:
- Grease deep in the extract system
- Extraction problems caused by the fan rather than the filters
- A heavily greased plenum or canopy, which needs cleaning to TR19
If you’re not sure, just ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we work on in Hungerford Green
- Wall canopies
- Baffle filters
- Restaurants and pubs
- School and hospital kitchens
- Mesh filters
- Island canopies
Fixed quotes for grease filter exchange in Hungerford Green
There’s no set price list, because no two systems are the same. The quote depends on:
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- What state the system is in
- How big the system is
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before work begins.
Asking for a quote
When you contact us, it’s useful to have:
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
Getting a quote does not take long. Send a few details and photos, and we normally reply with a fixed quote within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Keeping the system healthy
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is in use
- Wipe the outside of the canopy as part of daily cleaning
- Make sure no filter is left out
- Keep filter exchange and TR19 cleaning on the same plan
Nothing changes for your staff, except one less greasy job. Make sure we can reach the canopy on exchange day and tell us if service times change.
Clean filters plus regular full cleans keep the system in good health. A maintenance plan that covers both keeps everything on track.
What staff can safely do
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That is our job.
Why deal with it now?
When filters block, extraction suffers. Heat and fumes hang in the kitchen, and the fan works harder to pull air through. Keeping filters clean keeps the extract working properly. Rural sites can’t always move to another kitchen or room when something fails.
What you pay depends on how big the system is, what state it’s in and how easy it is to reach. We give you a fixed price before we start, so you know where you stand.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Hungerford Green
- Photo reports with every job
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
How the visit works
There are three stages on the day: set-up, the treatment itself and the sign-off. Getting ready means protecting surfaces and switching off what needs to be off, and the sign-off is a written report with pictures. Most of the time goes on the work itself, and that takes well under an hour for most canopies. Photos of the system and how to reach it help us plan a visit to Hungerford Green.
- The filters in each canopy are measured and counted.
- An exchange schedule is agreed to suit your cooking.
- The dirty set is lifted out.
- Clean filters go in and we check they sit snugly.
- The dirty filters leave with us and the next visit is booked.
Getting ready for the visit
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
Get a fixed quote
Every quote begins with a look at the system, from your photos and details or, where that isn’t enough, a survey on site. Then we send a fixed price, before work begins.
Related advice
What grease filter exchange looks like in Hungerford Green
About 47 miles out from central London, Hungerford Green is part of the South East area we work across. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends, so the visit fits around the site. Environmental health officers from West Berkshire council inspect food businesses in Hungerford Green. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Basildon Park is about 3.4 miles east), access may need planning. Term dates shape school work: for a school like The Downs School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. Church and community hall kitchens, near St Mary's church or anywhere around Hungerford Green, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Hungerford Green is about 7 miles south of Didcot, in Oxfordshire. Across the RG8 area, we can carry out grease filter exchange at your premises. Hungerford Green is one of 443 towns, villages and districts in Oxfordshire where we work for grease filter exchange. For sites nearby, see our Reading page (10 miles or so).
All of RG8 is within our area for grease filter exchange, from busy streets to back roads. Whether your site is on Bell Lane and The Glebe or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. We also cover the places around Hungerford Green: Streatley (2 miles east), Goring (3 miles east), Lower Basildon (3 miles east), Moulsford (3 miles north-east) and South Stoke (4 miles north-east). Larger places within reach include Didcot (7 miles north), Abingdon-on-Thames (12 miles north), Wantage (11 miles north-west), Henley-on-Thames (13 miles east), Grove (12 miles north-west) and Benson (9 miles north-east).
What’s near Hungerford Green
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Bell Inn, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Goring & Streatley station, roughly 2.9 miles east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Hampstead Norris Castle (2.8 miles south-west). Not far away are Churn Hill and Withymead Nature Reserve.
Different parts, different methods
Mesh filters
Mesh traps grease between its layers, which makes hand-washing hard work.
Canopy filter housings
The filter housing holds each filter at an angle in the canopy. A damaged housing leaves gaps.